Definition of "hoya" []

• Any of several evergreen climbing vines or shrubs of the genus Hoya, with a home range from India and southern China to Australia and having opposite, simple leaves and axillary, umbellate flower clusters. Also called porcelain flower, wax vine. (noun)

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• "Peñafiel calls it a... 'corruption of the Castilian word hoya, which means hollow or excavation in the ground'...."
• "Just to let you know, the Georgetown Hoya comes from a chant that they used to do back in the day ‘hoya saxa’, or ‘what rocks’ in greek/latin."
• "They were steaming hot, right out of the big hoya he had them wrapped in and we bought more for additional meals."